90 Silva vs. Cote Results

[Kenshin]

Undercard:

Pete Sell beat Josh Burkman by unanimous decision

Hermes Franca beat Marcus Aurelio by unanimous decision

Dan Miller beat Matt Horwich by unanimous decision

Spencer Fisher beat Shannon Gugerty by third-round submission (triangle choke)

Thales Leites beat Drew McFedries by first-round submission (rear-naked choke)


PPV Card:

Sean Sherk beats Tyson Griffin by unanimous decision

Junior "Cigano" dos Santos defeated Fabricio Werdum by first-round KO

Gray Maynard beats Rich Clementi by unanimous decision

Thiago Alves defeats Josh Koscheck by unanimous decision

Anderson Silva beats Patrick Cote by third-round TKO (Leg injury of Cote)

[heckyl]

Junior dos Santos made me very happy last night.

Sherk/Griffin was awesome. two lil t-rex's going back and fourth with the striking. it was pretty fun.

Gray Maynard was boring as all hell.

Alves did great defending Koschecks takedowns. Koscheck himself impressed the hell out of me in the loss. His overall game keeps getting better and better.

Disappointed in the end with the main event. but Cote has a hell of a chin. he took some very hard shots including a perfectly landed headkick with the sweet spot of the shin. ouch.

[Souder]

Looks like this was a good card. Didn't even know this event happen last night.

[Jarzi]

St Pierre vs Alves should be good, Alves had excellent takedown defence so he might cause Pierre some trouble.

Can someone enlighten me what the hell Silva was doing? Running and goofing around. I wanted Cote to kock him out simply because of that.

Werdum looked damn slow, maybe putting on pounds wasn't such a great idea after all.

[K-1 Extremist]

Silva was kicking himself for FUCKING around for those first two rounds. He could have finished the fight in the 1st were it not for the showboating. Shame.

[heckyl]

could he have really? Cote had a shit eating grin while he ate the shots Silva did throw, while firing back his own shots. i dont think Silva would have finished Cote in the 1st, showboating or not.

[( o Y o )]

I didn't really think Silva did anything he wouldn't usually. If Cote had of been hurt by anything that landed (like leben/Franklin) he would have been all over his arse. He wasn't hurt, and he was just looking for openings.

[Paxlie]

I didn't really think Silva did anything he wouldn't usually. If Cote had of been hurt by anything that landed (like leben/Franklin) he would have been all over his arse. He wasn't hurt, and he was just looking for openings.

Couldn't agree more. Cote also landed a couple pretty wild shots. I guess Silva gave him some respect to net get hit.

[Chewbaca Joe]

I also see nothing wrong or particularly unusual about Silva's performance.

Also, much as I dislike Koscheck, the guy has heart and deserves props.

[Sixtus]

Come on Silva vs Cote was a horrible fight, Silva was clearly messing around. Look at that massive jab he landed, he could have made Cote eat those all night. Rather he danced around and put on a bore fest.

[Chewbaca Joe]

If you were bored then that's too bad. What's wrong with messing around? Sakuraba messed around all the time and he's a hero for it. Maybe Anderson should've gone for a Mongolian chop.

[miscmisc]

I guess Anderson made it look too easy in his previous fights. It's probably his fault, or his past opponents' fault.

I too didn't find anything particularly bad about his performance. It was kind of like watching old Anderson, with his "messing around" factor boosted by the size of the octagon.

He is not dumb, and does "mess around" when he thinks he needs to.

[perchdogg]

Come on Silva vs Cote was a horrible fight, Silva was clearly messing around. Look at that massive jab he landed, he could have made Cote eat those all night. Rather he danced around and put on a bore fest.

Are you referring to the lead left straight?

I had no problem with Anderson's performance either. It wasn't his most exciting fight, but we've become so spoiled with what this guy has been doing in MMA for the last 3.5 years (starting with his destruction of Jorge Rivera, nobody ever made it out of the 2nd round with him and he proved to be on a different level technically from all of his opponents. I don't give much weight to the DQ loss to Okami). Anderson was picking his shots and seemed to need to adjust to Cote's game plan more than he does with other opponents. Credit Cote and his camp for that. If the flying knee in the first started a fight-ending flurry (like it would have against a lot of opponents), I don't think anybody would be complaining at all. Credit Cote's heart and chin for keeping him in the game.

Take note that people are complaining about a fight in which Silva threw a flying (or hopping) knee, landed huge head kicks, and lead left straights - this is action you don't see in any other fighter's bouts. Anderson was still winning handily and landing beautiful strikes that most fighters couldn't dream of. It wasn't his best show, but it's all relative. Give the guy a break.

[FieldingMellish]

Come on Silva vs Cote was a horrible fight, Silva was clearly messing around. Look at that massive jab he landed, he could have made Cote eat those all night. Rather he danced around and put on a bore fest.

I totally agree.

And so did the live crowd.

perchdogg has listed off all the cool things Silva did in the fight, but the fact is he spent the VAST majority of it strolling around, messing about and doing nothing.

Silva threw almost nothing for the first five minutes, and did little more in the second round either.

Joe Rogan screaming about how it was a "very entertaining fight" before the unfortunate ending is ridiculous.

I love watching Silva but this was painfully dull.

[FieldingMellish]

Excellent performance from Thiago Alves. Good showing by Koscheck too, though I never doubted the result.

Alves vs. the winner of GSP-BJ is a fascinating fight. Just a shame they didn't play it up more on the show. With enough promotion that could be a HUGE fight.

Sherk-Griffin was a good fight but served NO purpose. Proven drug cheat Sherk was PWNED by BJ and now he just derailed a potential challenger - no upside to this fight in the long run.

Dos Santos SMASHING Werdum was great.

Horwich-Miller was really fun to watch (though Rogan's shilling for Eddie Bravo in the third was a little irritating). Just a shame my favourite bible basher Horwich didn't take the decision.

[Grant Ellis]

I totally agree.

And so did the live crowd.

perchdogg has listed off all the cool things Silva did in the fight, but the fact is he spent the VAST majority of it strolling around, messing about and doing nothing.

Silva threw almost nothing for the first five minutes, and did little more in the second round either.

Joe Rogan screaming about how it was a "very entertaining fight" before the unfortunate ending is ridiculous.

I love watching Silva but this was painfully dull.

I don't know, even if there was a lot less banging than people wanted I was entertained.

Probably because I was so nervous as to what would happen.

Silva's inactivity actually had him losing the first round for the most part on my scorecard, but I thought he eventually landed enough to take the round... but it was a strange sort of dance he was playing.

The most fun part was Cote's head not getting knocked off.

I honestly felt the third round would have been fireworks if it was not for the ACL problem, and it is unfortunate things went down as they did.

[heckyl]

I don't know, even if there was a lot less banging than people wanted I was entertained.

Probably because I was so nervous as to what would happen.

Silva's inactivity actually had him losing the first round for the most part on my scorecard, but I thought he eventually landed enough to take the round... but it was a strange sort of dance he was playing.

The most fun part was Cote's head not getting knocked off.

I honestly felt the third round would have been fireworks if it was not for the ACL problem, and it is unfortunate things went down as they did.

you bumbling bafoon! he was not inactive. didnt you see Silvas devastation of the air he cut up with that intense shadowboxing? he tore shit up dawg.

[Soulrise]

I don't think Anderson was showboating. He's always been more of a counterstriker and with an opponent like Cote who's ONLY threat is his power/chin it would've been dumb of Anderson to just go on the offensive. The only problem is Cote was so scared to mix it up with Anderson (I don't care what Cote or anyone in his corner says post-fight, he was scared) that he was throwing his punches and kicks from so far out that they had no chance of landing.

As for the rest of the card, it didn't offer much in terms of significance and star power but I found it entertaining. Alves/Koscheck was an outstanding fight (I've been on Thiago's hype train for a few years now) and I think Koscheck has gained a whole new level of respect after his showing. Werdum getting KTFO was fun to watch as well.

One last note, the Illinois State Athletic Commission needs to get proper training for its refs ASAP. They were yelling "work!" and "i want to see action!" at seriously the dumbest times ever. They made Yves Lavigne look like a saint of BJJ.

[Sixtus]

Andersons speed, movement and footwork were all so superior and he had a large reach advantage. Silva has come out and said “My game plan since the beginning was fight five rounds, inducing him to commit mistakes and capitalize on that during the first three rounds and look for the knockout during the fourth and fifth rounds.“ However I do think he could have been more active and really softened Cote up earlier. He was just too passive, just dancing around killing time, other than a few hard shots like the knee. The fight was very boring, sitting there waiting for something to happen most of the time. If Cote hadn’t gotten injured it might have been a fun fight, but as it happened it was not a fight I’ll be watching again in future. :)

[EckY]

I guess Anderson made it look too easy in his previous fights. It's probably his fault, or his past opponents' fault.

I too didn't find anything particularly bad about his performance. It was kind of like watching old Anderson, with his "messing around" factor boosted by the size of the octagon.

He is not dumb, and does "mess around" when he thinks he needs to.

This is EXACTLY how I feel about it. I was arguing with someone earlier about this who was calling me all kinds of names because I wouldnt agree that Silva was just playing and could have KO'd Cote whenever he felt like it, but just wanted to entertain the fans, lol. I guess the knee to the face wasnt trying to hurt Cote, just meant to look cool.

[MZN]

Pete Sell made himself a new career at ww. I think it is strange how Burkman could look so flat 6 minutes into the fight. Rogan's explanation doesn't cover it imo.

Franca kicking the hell out of Aurelio's thigh was also entertaining.